In the capital of the country, Khartoum, the demonstrators protested against the seizure of the army on the country, since the putsch of October 25.
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Violence broke out again on Thursday, December 30, in Sudan. Four demonstrators were killed near Khartoum and dozens of people were injured in a crowd that shouts at military power, braving live ammunition, tear gas canisters and cutting off communications. According to a union of pro-democracy doctors, the four demonstrators were shot dead in Omdurman, the northwestern suburb of Khartoum, linked to the capital by a bridge.
In a call relayed by Facebook pages maintained by Sudanese living abroad, the doctors deplored that the police “prevent ambulances from approaching” the victims. They called in reinforcement of doctors at the Arbaïn hospital in Omdourman “because the putschists use live ammunition against the demonstrators”, and reported “dozens of injured”.
It is impossible to know exactly the extent of the crackdown, as the authorities cut off mobile internet and phone calls, both local and overseas, in the morning. In addition, Dubai-based satellite television Al-Arabiya reported that several of its journalists were injured in an attack on his office by the security services. The local channel al-Sharq also claimed to have been prevented from covering the day’s news by the security forces.
With each new call to demonstrate for “the revolution” and against the head of the army, General Abdel Fattah al-Burhane, who reinforced his power with a coup on October 25, the authorities are mobilizing new techniques to try to stem the opposition.
In addition to the muscular searches of the media, the security forces (police, military and paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces) had installed cameras on the main roads of Khartoum early Thursday, further worrying activists who denounce uninterrupted raids for several decades. weeks in their ranks. That hasn’t stopped tens of thousands of protesters from chanting again “No to military power” and “The soldiers at the barracks!” in Khartoum, but also in Kessala and Port-Sudan, in the east, or in Madani, in the south of the capital.